What We're All About

Communities Unlimited connects rural Americans to solutions that sustain healthy businesses, healthy communities, and healthy lives. We believe that access to opportunities should not depend on where you live, how much you have in the bank, or what you look like.

We take a holistic approach to economic development combining human connection with technology and expertise to foster self-reliance and economic impact for people and communities through 5 main program areas.

This is where we live. This is where we work. These are our communities. We work side by side with individuals, communities and organizations to create economic resilience in the America’s rural South.

Communities Unlimited, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation founded in 1976 that connects people to solutions through human connections. Through ingenuity combined with cutting-edge technology and expertise building healthy businesses, healthy communities, healthy food systems, healthy bank accounts and healthy lives.

Communities Unlimited consists of 4 primary program areas:

• Community Sustainability partners with communities to create vibrant, sustainable economies
• Entrepreneurship works alongside small business owners to grow their businesses
• Environmental Services works with rural communities’ water and wastewater treatment facilities
• Healthy Foods works with small-scale farmers and promotes healthy eating

These program areas create economic opportunities and solutions for communities in our seven-state service area to grow and thrive. We seek new partners who further support economic development to touch more aspects of each community.

We grow as the communities and clients we work with continue to grow.